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Intensifying Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-13)How cities grow is set to change. In the Greater Toronto Area, both Ontario’s Greenbelt Plan and Growth Plan for the Golden Greater Horseshoe are set to have a significant impact on how and where urban growth will occur ... -
The Intermodal Metropolis: Spatial Protocols at the Convergence of Regional Mobility Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-12)Suburban Centres were established in the Toronto region as the population dispersed beyond the city’s borders. Intended as a set of delivery points for municipal services and concentrations of commercial and social program ... -
Interstitial Landscape as Interstitial Tissue: Parco degli Acquedotti al'Mandrione
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-03)This thesis emerged from a series of journeys / ‘percorsi’, conducted between 2007 and 2009 along the course of the aqueducts and railway lines in the south-east of Rome. During this time, my focus shifted from figure to ... -
Interstitial Urbanity: Fragments of Place Within the Post-Modern City
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis introduces <em>Interstitial Urbanity</em> as a strategy for addressing issues of urbanity and place within New York's peripheral developments. Driven primarily by market forces, these developer led office and ... -
The Interval: in-between unmaking and remaking the body
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-19)By its individual terms, we can think of a body in two coincident ways that meet it in the middle: from the familiar inside-out and from the less familiar outside-in. To proceed from the middle of things conceives of a ... -
The Intrinsic Agent: Working with Light
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-09)Architecture’s intrinsic natural agent, light, is an elusive and mysterious figure in the process of architectural design. The very phenomenon that reveals to us the contents, materials, and proportions of a space is ... -
An Investigation into the Lexicon of Waste
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-26)Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the increase in population, urbanization, cheap energies, and new technologies have bankrupted the environment into destruction. This chaos has created a society that transformed ... -
Invisible Boundaries
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-12)Within Buenos Aires there exists a boundary between the formal, planned developments of the middle class and the informal, organically-developed self-built housing of the poor. Villa 31, an informal settlement located near ... -
THE ISLINGTON GALLERY OF ART: An Architectural Implementation of the 'Third Place'
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)This thesis proposes turning a Toronto subway station into a gallery that will display temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. Islington subway station, on the corner of Bloor Street West and Islington Avenue, will ... -
It Takes a Village: A Retrofit Framework for Improving Health and Community in Car-Dependent Suburbs
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-09)Car-dependent suburban sprawl is an outdated planning methodology that is antithetical to the health, wellbeing, and social prosperity of suburban residents. In the past, North-American town planning was more community-centric; ... -
It's ON at Ontario Place - Or is it?
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-18)This thesis It’s ON at Ontario Place - Or Is It? addresses the roles that architecture and landscape play in shaping the waterfront and park systems into designed connected networks that respond to local, social, sustainable, ... -
It's Terminal: Architecture of Obsolescence
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-17)There’s always been one here. There’s the one that’s here now, there’s the one that it replaced, and there’s also the first one that didn’t last so long. One hundred and sixty odd years there’s been one here, in this place. ... -
An Itinerant Architect
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-22)An itinerant architect—one who learns, teaches, and practices architecture on the road—has the ability to improve spaces that would otherwise never reach their fullest potential. The profession of architecture as it stands ... -
Jiazhai: In Search of My Mother's Childhood House
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-15)The concept of home has become increasingly complex and challenging to defi ne in modern times, as traditional notions of home are being challenged by diverse family structures, globalization and mobility, economic instability, ... -
Johannesburg: the urban mediate
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-18)Object _ This thesis draws from the specific universality of Johannesburg to develop a theoretical framework that critically examines the opposing forces of its urbanization. In just 130 years the city of Johannesburg has ... -
Journey into Caldera
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-14)There is a dormant volcano in the northern province of Jilin, China, called the Baekdu/Chang Bai Mountain. At the top of this 2,744 m mountain is a large caldera filled with water, named “Heaven Lake”. Geologically, this ... -
A Journey to Shora: Expressing the Architectural Environment Behind A Door into Ocean
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)This thesis seeks to express the architectural environment behind Joan Slonczewski’s 1986 science-fiction novel, A Door into Ocean. The novel describes a water-covered planet called Shora; its inhabitants, Sharers; and ... -
Journey to the Centre of the Shield
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)The land of deep water lies in Ontario’s north, atop the boundless rock of the Shield. It holds the secret of an island once blossoming with copper ore. Here primordial elements dance in the ancient landscape and invite ... -
The Journey to the Inner Peace of Your Heart-Modernization of traditional Chinese Buddhist temples
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)This thesis aims to explore the method of designing contemporary Chinese Buddhist temples in terms of investigating how Buddhist temples should develop without repeating traditional forms nor losing the sacred sensation. While ... -
The Journey to the Other Side: Investigation into the Myth of Persephone
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-09)This thesis is an exploration of chthonian architecture, which offers qualities that guide its visitor to the gate of the unconscious mind, which has always been the starting point of the holy trip of self-discovery. This ...